bluffer

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Noun
  • Hedge funds and large speculators are shorting the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, at rates not seen in three years in a bet the calm will last.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And then a lot of the speculators bought up hoards of blighted property or vacant property, and many of them are still holding onto it now.
    Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Crazy as this sport is, all four teams might be pretenders.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But the Bolts don't have enough pieces to go from pretenders to contenders.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • Social media immediately ran to her comments, with some calling her out as a hypocrite.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But in 1920, that all changed when Edward Clarke and Elizabeth Tyler (marketing experts and morality hypocrites) were taken on.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • No matter the party affiliation, there’ll be charlatans claiming to care, while smooth-talking their way into the homes of hard-working people who struggle.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Islamic eschatology warned of a deceiver who distorts perception, blurring reality.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Bluffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluffer. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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